Gleaton Chip Ranch Updates

[PondPopper]

The dozer guy started today and will continue through next week. Hoping to get rid of around 8 acres worth of cedar. I ordered 5 acres worth of Turner Seed’s pollinator mix that we will be broadcasting into the freshly dozed soils. I’ll post some before and after pictures.


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Is your dozer guy local?

[bgleaton]

Yes, the bulldozer guy is from Brady.


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[bgleaton]

My oldest brother and my niece were able to help us bag this 4yr old 8-pointer this morning. This was the first time we’ve ever seen this buck in person. This was our #1 cull buck due to the short brow tines.


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[Droptine3030]

Y’all have really hammered the culls this year. Have y’all killed more culls this yr than previous yrs ,or does it just seem so ?

[hunt777]

beautiful place and great work. You are a true steward of the land and wildlife

[bgleaton]

Y’all have really hammered the culls this year. Have y’all killed more culls this yr than previous yrs ,or does it just seem so ?

Yes, we have hammered the culls this year. We have one more left. We found 42 different bucks, not including buck fawns, on trail cameras so the biologist recommended we remove a couple of the worst ones from each age class. We have one more buck to shoot that looks really sick (you can see his ribs and his hip bones) and 2 more doe to shoot.


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[bgleaton]

This is a seed mix that we will be planting in the freshly dozed areas. Looking forward to see it a couple years from now. We should have some good pictures of the dozed areas by next weekend and will post some pictures.


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[bgleaton]

Here are a couple of pictures from our evening hunt yesterday. A nice 2yr old 11pt and a 4yr old 8pt with busted G3’s.


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[bgleaton]

We still haven’t received any rain since planting but it’s still green. Hoping it will flourish after or whenever we get some rain.


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[KactusKiller]

Are yall still at the 360 acre count or did yall ever add to it?

[JohnKrautz08]

beautiful place!

[bgleaton]

Are yall still at the 360 acre count or did yall ever add to it?

We are just under 400 acres. Hoping to add to it eventually.


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[bgleaton]

I took some cool drone videos and pictures of the property. The view above shows the southern half of our property with the San Saba river in the background.


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[bgleaton]

A drone picture showing around a 2 acre area that has been dozed. He’ll stack them up for us to burn and grade the dirt.


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